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We did video recreations of the flight. in that case they would take the nose up, try to throw them to the back, and try to throw them off balance and rock it back and force. that is the only thing that struck me like terrorism. everything else is basically six or seven pings. and pings dont tell me terrorists. pings say something is wrong if that is all you have. but there is like i said -- >> what about the transponder being turned off? that is something the pilot can do manually? >> no, we do...

Flying. it is 90 minutes later they realize the plane is missing because it never showed up in chinese air space. it is well off course, pretty well determined, right? >> and no pilot would go off course without enunciating that it went off course. that captain was not just 18,000 hours but a training cant and certified by their government to give instruction and testing. if they had an emergency, which never was enunciated, if they had a problem they would have said something. remember, the key...

Automatic pilot it will fly straight to its destination. the transponder usually -- this is not a plane known for its mechanical failure. the track record is impeccable. and then it gets off course then the changes in altitude. that is not going to happen on a flight that is on automatic pilot. is it? >> right, but were trianulating. we dont really know what happened. we have the -- >> again if it is on automatic pilot. the motion on the airplane, or -- >> sean, the problems we dont yet know tha...

So is it plausible, is it possible, that a pilot could convey this, all right, good night, and not even know that this acars, the aircraft communications addressing and reporting system, has been disabled? does it have to be the pilot that actually disables that system? >> no. i mean, the system could fail for any number of reasons, however i cant think of a way the system would fail. say an electrical fire. electrical problem. thats going to fail the acars first, the transponder second, and the...

These reports today? >> well, sean, i am digging on the reports that the pilot may have deliberately taken the plane off course. now, that is a reuters course, what it says basically is that the plane looked like it was flying on an aviation corridor. im putting up a map, the aviation map, we have this. this is an aviation chart, you can see all the lines and then the dots. those are way points. they help to define the different navigation routes. >> this would almost be like a highway in the sk...

Automatic pilot it will fly straight to its destination. the transponder usually -- this is not a plane known for its mechanical failure. the track record is impeccable. and then it gets off course then the changes in altitude. that is not going to happen on a flight that is on automatic pilot. is it? >> right, but were trianulating. we dont really know what happened. we have the -- >> again if it is on automatic pilot. the motion on the airplane, or -- >> sean, the problems we dont yet know tha...

Triple of course quadruple, if it went off the pilot would have been able to turn it back on via some battery pack system. >> if theyre able. >> explain the payne system. he was in a lear jet if memory serves me right, we had fighter jets go up and actually they could see that everybody was already dead in the plane and they let it run out of fuel before the plane went down, right? >> right, they let it go because they could calculate exactly where it was going to come down. there was never a pl...

"cnn newsroom" starts right now. snooze -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello, everyone. im fredricka whitfield. wack to the cnn are in maria. brand new information about the events leading up to the disappearance of flight 370. heres what we know right now. malaysias prime minister says the cockpits signoff to ground control which was "all right. good night." was said after the planes communication system was disabled. more on what all that could mean straight ahead, and malaysias prime...

Believed the plane crashed when it lost contact right here. that there was a catastrophic event, that the plane depressurized. after three seconds of decompression, youre asleep, and shortly after that it would go into the drink unless it was on auto pilot. we know it was not on auto pilot. so the thing that comes together here, it is the thing that is most unnerving. >> all right, well have my interview with the reporter who spoke extensively and exclusively with the family of american philip w...

The plane has been. there are other things that happened sean, pilot incapacitation -- >> wouldnt it be more likely, the pilots, once they go wheels up, theyre boom, the wheels are up, theyre there in case something wrong happens? right? >> in a lot of cases. >> you want it on auto pilot because it is a much more precise way of flying and certainly you will save a lot of fuel and time with that. so you put it on automatic pilot. yes, the fact that it went off track, the transponders were off, if...